April, 2014

Tarek Madkour and Daniel Griffing join other notable speakers at ADC++ in Munich, Germany this week. Tarek and Daniel each have a couple talks in the two day event agenda :
Keynote - Modern C++ Developement with Visual C++
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While I am not attending the Build conference myself, I did tune in for the keynote and bits and pieces of other live-streamed talks and look forward to catching many of the sessions over on Channel 9 once they are available.
Here is what is happening...

** Update 4/2 9am ** Are you watching the keynote live at http://channel9.msdn.com/?wt.mc_id=build_hp?
The BUILD conference begins tomorrow. Here are few things you, our loyal Visual C++ blog readers, should know:
You can watch live on Channel...